Chief Quotes

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Billy Graham is the chief servant of Satan in America. — Jerry Falwell
It is said that the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of flag-waving picaninnies; and… — Boris Johnson
I think the worst one [indian mascot] is the Cleveland Indians' Big Chief Wahoo. It's just a red face on a baseball with a big,… — Wanda Sykes
Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at… — John B. Watson
One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself. — Kim Stanley Robinson
The trouble for the thief is not how to steal the chiefâ€™s bugle, but where to blow it. — Maya Angelou
The anarch is oriented to facts, not ideas. He fights alone, as a free man, and would never dream of sacrificing himself to having one… — Ernst Junger
My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest imitation, I detest… — Sergei Prokofiev
My chief reason for choosing Christianity was because the mysteries were incomprehensible. What's the point of revelation if we could figure it out ourselves? If… — Mortimer Adler
Bear in mind that the children of life are the children of joy; that the lower animals are only unhappy when made so by man;… — William Henry Hudson
The chief trouble with jazz is that there is not enough of it; some of it we have to listen to twice. — Don Herold
Thus, if a composer wants to produce music that is relevant to his contemporaries, his chief problem is not really musical, though it may seem… — John Blacking
It is time for Democrats who distrust President Bush to acknowledge that he will be commander in chief for three more critical years, and that… — Joe Lieberman
Many of my ardent admirers would be roundly shocked and disturbed if they realized that everything I believe is thoroughly moral, thoroughly Catholic, and that… — Flannery O'Connor
No human law can abolish the natural and original right of marriage, nor in any way limit the chief and principal purpose of marriage ordained… — Pope Leo XIII
There are three influences which appear to Us to have the chief place in effecting this downgrade movement of society. These are-first, the distaste for… — Pope Leo XIII
The Rosary offers an easy way to present the chief mysteries of the Christian religion and to impress then upon the mind. — Pope Leo XIII
What is the good of life if its chief element, and that which must always be its chief element, is odious? No, the only true… — Edward Carpenter
People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and… — Edgar Degas
The chief business of the American people is business. — Calvin Coolidge

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